So I had won an auction from Ebay for 72 pcs of Copic "Comic" Markers. While I'd never heard of comic markers, I was definitely interested since it looked like sketch. The oval shape and the super fine brush - it was definitely a steal! Apparently, nobody had ever heard of them either, so I won it for pretty cheap *cheer*

The following pictures illustrate just how similar these markers are to sketch. The only real difference is the medium broad square nib on sketch - comic markers have a medium round nib (which I thought was pretty cool!) The other difference, however, is in the color tags: these comic markers start with CM** (where the asterisk go from 1 to 72), regardless of the color family. The other copics and their refills use different color tags: blues start with B, violets with V, etc.







According to Marianne, the Copic representative from the official website of the US copic distributor, these colors use the same Various Ink refills, though they have to be converted to the appropriate color the other copics use. She was nice enough to let me know that when it is time for me to refill, she will find a conversion chart for the comic markers.

Yeay!!

So there is it, guys: that's comic markers. Before I finish, I should also note that Marianne said these markers are not sold in the US. The ones I bought from Ebay were probably from Japan. Except it shipped from San Francisco - lol! The seller had probably made a trip to Japan and came back with dozens of copic sets to sell on Ebay. Last time I was browsing, he had Sketch sets A to D in 72 pcs and some in 36.

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